The publisher and president of RealClear Foundation, David DesRosiers, first started asking himself over a year ago if the news media really needed a rival to the Pulitzer Prize, and when he started asking others, the answer was a resounding yes.

The result became RCP’s brand new Samizdat Prize, whose inaugural winners, journalists Matt Taibbi, Miranda Devine, and Stanford epidemiologist Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, all will join Dave Rubin for a live interview at a March 7 awards gala in Palm Beach, Florida.